Balzac, Honore de

1799 - Born on the 20th of May in Tours, France.

1822 - The scandalous Vicaire des Ardennes, banned for its depiction of pseudo-incestuous.

1829 - Published collection Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes from Private Life).

1829 - Entered the mainstream as an author of full-length fiction.

1832 - Wrote novel in provincial settings Le curé de Tours (The Vicar of Tours).

1833 - Wrote Eugénie Grandet.

1835 - He wrote In Le Père Goriot (Old Father Goriot), his next big success.

1842 - Wrote the novel Ursule Mirouet.

1843 - His shorter pieces and novellas there followed notably Les Illusions perdues (Lost Illusions).

1844 - Honoré de Balzac wrote Modeste Mignon.

         - Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (The Harlot High and Low), Le Cousin Pons.

1850 - Married Eveline Hanska in Berdyczów and three months later, Balzac died on 18th of August.

• "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
• "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes;
  when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
• "Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
• "It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
• "Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire."